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Authors: Mary Daheim
The Alpine Scandal (26 page)
Also by Mary Daheim
The Alpine Advocate
The Alpine Betrayal
The Alpine Christmas
The Alpine Decoy
The Alpine Escape
The Alpine Fury
The Alpine Gamble
The Alpine Hero
The Alpine Icon
The Alpine Journey
The Alpine Kindred
The Alpine Legacy
The Alpine Menace
The Alpine Nemesis
The Alpine Obituary
The Alpine Pursuit
The Alpine Quilt
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The Alpine Traitor
Praise for Mary Daheim and her Emma Lord mysteries
“Recommended…If you like cozy mysteries, you need to try Daheim’s Alpine series.”
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The Snooper
“Daheim writes…with dry wit, a butter-smooth style, and obvious wicked enjoyment.”
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The Oregonian
“The characters are great, and the plots always attention-getting.”
—King Features Syndicate
“Well-drawn characters and a complex crime are a winning combination.”
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Publishers Weekly
“[Daheim] amiably captures the rhythms and crosscurrents of small-town life.”
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Kirkus Reviews
“Daheim readers will be awarded with great multi-generational characters to pull you into the story and make you realize what good mystery writing is all about.”
—I Love a Mystery
“Daheim’s series about murder and mayhem in a small town might make you look at your neighbors a little differently. Always entertaining.”
—Crime by Collins
“Mary Daheim combines lots of action with great characterizations to create a fantastic regional mystery.”
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Midwest Book Review
The Alpine Scandal
is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents are the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual events, locales, or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
2008 Ballantine Books Mass Market Edition
Copyright © 2007 by Mary Daheim
Excerpt from
The Alpine Traitor
copyright © 2008 by Mary Daheim.
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
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Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Ballantine Books, an imprint of The Random House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., in 2007.
This book contains an excerpt from the forthcoming hardcover edition of
The Alpine Traitor
by Mary Daheim. This excerpt has been set for this edition only and may not reflect the final content of the forthcoming edition.
eISBN: 978-0-345-50452-4
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